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Excited to receive Inherent Vice No. 3: Exploring Queerness in Natural History, a zine in collaboration with us! From reflections on queerness during conservation work on hyenas and porpoises to creating ecology/queerness festivals, read about nature's intersection with queerness. buff.ly/47eZgmH

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSD005/d... #medievalsky

University of Edinburgh ditches 150-year-old 'John Knox cap' graduation tradition. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you're someone who like a hard copy, but you've been holding off because of the price, I'm happy to say that my book is being paperbacked at the end of the month and it's available to preorder now!

There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️

Offre d’emploi – Teaching Fellow (Medieval Literature) rmblf.be/2026/06/30/o...

This is really shocking. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

We're hiring a Senior Library Manager to lead the University's records management service, driving modern recordkeeping practices & helping ensure information is managed effectively across the University. For more details and to apply 👉 https://ow.ly/iMNN50ZgQ1t Closing date: 12 July #LibraryJobs

At this point, this has just turned into a ‘map of British universities’

🙌 The brilliant Susana Sánchez-González has published a fascinating new article, The Ordinary Numinosity of the Book...

Hebrew Palaeography Question! Could anyone please help translate the inscription below, from the end leaves of a Latin Pocket Bible? The Latin inscription added afterwards shows the book was also owned by a Dominican friar, and the book is continental but was later in Oxford! 📖🔎

Offre d’emploi – Post-doctoral Research Associate in Latin linguistics (King’s College London) rmblf.be/2026/06/24/o...

Two-year early modern English job, at Oriel College and the Oxford English Faculty, starting October. Happy to field any questions! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI, 5th century) was one of the tragic victims of the Ashburnham House fire in 1731. Today, we’re delighted to release new multispectral imaging of the manuscript, allowing us to read its texts for the first time in hundreds of years. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

How can X-rays help us understand written artefacts and other cultural treasures? A workshop we organised together with DESY brought together experts from various domains to discuss the use of X-ray-based methods in cultural heritage research uhh.de/csmc-desy

🗣️ Medievalists! 🏰 Check out this page, we’ve done a reconstruction the medieval chapel at Chester Castle! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... Please share widely! There’s loads of info and *lovely* images from the repertoire of medieval art - and also more reconstructions!

🚨 Job alert: Research Fellow, Project ‘Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain’ You will carry out desk and archive-based research into manuscripts and preparing materials for web publication. 📆 Deadline: July 7th 📍Uni. of Southampton, UK ▶️ To apply: tinyurl.com/48bebudb

HMML is hiring a "Cataloger of South Asian Manuscripts," a full-time, benefits-eligible, remote position. Details: https://bit.ly/4uGD6PE The Cataloger will be working on Islamic manuscripts recently digitized in India and Pakistan. This is a two-year, grant-funded position. #LibraryJobs #Hiring

Very much enjoying this simple, elegant game. (Simple to play but often tricky to do well) anthropeum.com

Excited to see my piece with Elena Lolli now out in the Bodleian Library Record! We identified erasures in an early 14th-century Italian book of surgery (now @bodleianlibrary.bsky.social MS. Laud Misc. 651) as records of medieval Jewish pawnbrokers in Bologna, using UV images by Andrew Honey! 📜🎉

Praxis, sister 🙏🌈 #pridemonth

Great news, please share widely: the Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki will open a permanent university lecturer position in Digital Humanities in Autumn 2026. Teaching-focused, future-facing methods role, linked to LingDig, HELDIG and SSH-wide methods teaching. More details in August.

Fabulous medieval postdoc opportunity on a brilliant project…

Did you know that Cambridge University had a farm? Its archive is held @theul.bsky.social and the University Archivist explores its history in our latest blog! specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=31573

Sometimes librarians have a good cry, not because of the slashed budgets and the repressive regimes. Because they can put something profound in front of a reader, and witness. #Pride #HumanRights #NeverForget

House of Bagpuss??? For persons of a certain age, total property catnip…

Offre d’emploi – Lecturer in Medieval/Early Modern History (Lancaster University) rmblf.be/2026/06/03/o...

🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆 Full-time, permanent lectureship in Old and Middle Irish at Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie. Application deadline 26 July 2026. Tar ag obair linn i Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Great article about my fellow mudlark Jason Sandy on the BBC News website today. Jason has recently donated his many found pieces of the lost lead Doves Type to the Emery Walker museum. Read his story here 👇🏼 In search of 'mudlarking gold' on the River Thames www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very good, if extremely depressing, piece by Stefan Collini to explain what has been and is being done to this country’s universities. If interested to find out, I recommend reading it.

People forget it was a CONDITION of transition that you use your true sex toilet. They have lied and lied and lied from the start. Spent millions. And because we were completely locked out by media - and the actual court itself - they had a free run. The biggest rights robbery in British history.

Samaritans Report a 40% increase in calls from the Trans Community since April 2025. I telephoned the Samaritans n 1969, in 1971, in 1974, and in 1978 I am still here because of those calls. Call the Samaritans, anytime for free any, from any phone, on 116 123 www.samaritans.org/news/samarit...

Librarians here found out about this via social media on Monday. Those I've spoken to are devastated and furious. No consultation, no attempt to respond to concerns. Just a constant stream of violence against the Humanities in any form it takes by people who do not value it. #skystorians

What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.

Interested in herbaria, plants and digitization? Come work with us! 3 PhD & Postdoc Positions in History & Phil. of Biology & Digital Humanities! #ERC Project BOTLEG; @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! Deadline: 25 May '26 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky #PhDSky Details below 👇

Still depressed about the EHRC and what it says about the decline of feminism in my lifetime. But, to all my trans & NB friends, colleagues & students: try to remember that only a small, genital-obsessed minority want this (however hard the media try to change that). Many many people support you. 💜

The second of @etreharne.bsky.social's Smithies lectures will be on Thursday 11 June, 17.15 in @ballioloxford.bsky.social - 'Medieval Manuscript Hunters & the Second World War'. All welcome! @oxmedstud.bsky.social @oxfordmedievalmss.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

An exciting job opportunity with my team - come join us as the Science Museum Collection Archivist! 📒📚📼📜💾📔🗂️ Part time (4 days/80%), permanent, based at the Science and Innovation Park near Swindon. Happy to answer Qs/ chat about the role before you apply. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

🚨We are hiring🚨 We are recruiting for 2x Archivist posts: Archivist (Access and Engagement) - fixed-term until March 2028. Project Archivist (Setting the Record Straight) - fixed-term, 12 months. To find out more about the roles and apply take a look at our website⬇️. #archives #jobs

Verrry much looking forward to seeing a copy of this from the Most Excellent @harryspillane.bsky.social

Writing has been independently invented maybe four times in human history. Radiocarbon dating has found evidence that the original inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) invented writing independently. buff.ly/PS5nm5j #ShareGoodNewsToo

#JobKlaxon We are looking for a permanent Lecturer in Global Medieval History to join us at @leedsims.bsky.social! Applications due 1 June. Happy to talk to anyone interested in an informal capacity. If you are in Kalamazoo, find me at #ICMS! #leedsmedievalstudies jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

I have read of unwanted medieval parchment MSS being used by gold beaters in the making of gold leaf, but a conservator friend recently poured cold water on the notion. So I was glad to find evidence that the practice was stilled used as recently as the 1950's (but using post-medieval MSS) 1/

‘Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage’ is now out in the wild! You can download an open-access copy (PDF) or read the free digital edition on Manifold uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Loved working on this with Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social & the @uolpress.bsky.social team.

This is striking: 'by the early C11th the total sailcloth requirements for the Danish & Norwegian fleet would have amounted to about one million square metres - the annual production of two million sheep'. That's a lot of sheep & many looms... Richard Hodges citing Neil Price.

In light of closures of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences courses and departments across the UK in the past 2 years, what does that commitment mean? The University of Hertfordshire's announced closures of Humanities offer a case study for hard-edged reflection. 2/9 @victoria-collins.bsky.social